When you travel to the Northeast, you must get up early to see the frozen morning market, see how hardworking Northeasters sell/buy ingredients in an environment of MINUS 20 degrees, and see the legendary "miracle" that tofu can kill people and ice cream still sells well in winter. So what kind of experience is it to catch up with the morning market at MINUS 20 degrees in the northeast in winter? Take a look with me!
In order to keep warm, merchants have come up with various measures, such as wearing several layers of cotton-padded clothes and making super-thick cotton shoes and caps. But now most vendors still build a simple plastic shed to keep warm and sell frozen foods such as fruits and vegetables in this simple plastic shed.
However, the simple plastic shed does not seem to be able to completely resist the cold outside, so some vendors will add lighting, small sun, stove and other heating equipment to the simple plastic shed.
And those foods that are not afraid of freezing, such as chicken, duck and fish, are generally sold in stalls. These chickens, ducks and fish are so frozen that they can only be taken home and thawed or processed by vendors with hay cutters, which is very northeast.
Frozen pears, frozen ice cream and sugar-coated haws, which are common in the morning market, are the real winter characteristics in Northeast China, which can only be seen in the northeast in winter. Who would have thought that pears would turn black after being frozen at low temperature, and what is even more unexpected is that people in the Middle East and North actually like to eat popsicles at a temperature of MINUS 20 degrees.
Although the color of frozen pears is dark, the taste of pears has changed qualitatively after thawing indoors. It becomes refreshing and delicious, and it is sweet to suck the juice inside.
Northeasters like to eat popsicles in winter. Some people say that the indoor temperature is high, so eating popsicles can cool down. Others say that eating popsicles can relieve alcohol. No matter how much you drank last night, a drink the next morning will be much more comfortable. Because I don't drink, I don't know if it's true or not that popsicles can relieve alcohol. Is there a partner who knows to answer?
It's like a joke to hear that tofu can kill people, but tofu can really kill people in winter in Northeast China. After freezing, the soft tofu turned into hard frozen tofu, which not only became larger in size, but also increased in hardness, and became a hard food like a stone. Suitable for stewing northeast sauerkraut with blood sausage.
The temperature of MINUS 20 degrees in the morning is like a natural big refrigerator. Some food can be put on the street, not afraid of food deterioration. Here, frozen jiaozi, frozen sticky bean bags and other foods have also been put on stalls by vendors.
After talking about the morning market of MINUS 20 degrees in Northeast China, let's talk about personal feelings! Although I knew it would be cold to catch the morning market in Northeast China, I specially put on more clothes, but the temperature of MINUS 20 degrees was so cold that I cried for a while and didn't go shopping. Tears flowed involuntarily. After a while, it became a popsicle. It's indescribable cold, and it's biting cold.